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John Kerry is Not the Issue

By Jeralyn, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 04:14:31 PM EST
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Who cares what John Kerry said? The issue is Iraq.

Guantanamo

Torture

2 Million Americans in Jail

The Republicans have blown our governance so badly we all want to scream

Screaming does no good. Voting them out of office is what will help.

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    John Kerry is Not the Issue | 16 comments (16 topical)

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    Look at all those idiots in pine boxes! (1.00 / 0) (#12)
    by BigRiver on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 07:25:52 PM EST
    They didn't do their homework or get an education. Look where they are stuck!

    Screw 'em, I guess.

    Of course (none / 0) (#1)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 04:18:13 PM EST
    We'll see if the Dems can make that point.

    Yeah, right (none / 0) (#2)
    by MrGreyGhost on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 04:20:29 PM EST
    That's funny, just last week the Left told us that Mark Foley was the issue.

    Interesting (none / 0) (#4)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 04:27:12 PM EST
    So the coverup by the GOP leadership of a sexual predator is akin to a mistake in a speech from someone not on any ballot?

    GOP values on display.

    [ Parent ]

    Kerry may well have cost the Demos the election (1.00 / 0) (#7)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 04:53:21 PM EST
    Big Tent - The point is that Foley became a poster child for the Demos to use. You used him, even though the past problems of two Demo congressman are well known, just as you ignore Murtha's ethics problems from the past.

    No big deal... after all, the Clinton people told us politics is a blood sport.

    Now it is the Demos looking dumb and uncaring and you are trying to act as if his comments are meaningless. Nonsense. They reveled an elitist attitude and an uncaring heart. It cost him the election in '04 and has damaged the Demos terribly.

    You can forget the RePub base not voting and the conservaties not coming out. This may very well turn the election.

    Rove must be laughing his behind off.

    [ Parent ]

    A different point (none / 0) (#9)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 05:52:01 PM EST
    I am not cheering for Kerry right now to say the least.

    [ Parent ]
    Search engines (none / 0) (#3)
    by Edger on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 04:27:09 PM EST
    Horrible images to associate with a nation that was and can again be a light in the darkness. But images say so much more than words and can produce visceral reaction.

    More of these please. More often. Especially for the next 2 or 3 days, with text related to the elections, that search engines like google will pick up on.

    Search engines (none / 0) (#5)
    by Edger on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 04:31:33 PM EST
    IOW, when people google search for news on 2006 Midterm Elections, if those words are on this page their searches will find this page.

    [ Parent ]
    Thank you, Jeralyn! (none / 0) (#6)
    by clio on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 04:47:01 PM EST

    We need to keep saying the blindingly obvious because the media sure as H won't:

    The issue is Iraq: the deaths, the torture, the graft, the greed, the incompetence, the corruption, the loss of the war

    The issue is Katrina: the deaths, the indifference, the graft, greed and corruption, the murderously criminal incompetence, the indifference to the suffering and deaths of Americans on American soil.

    The issue is freedom:  the loss of privacy, free speech, and civil liberties.  The destruction of habeas corpus for political gain.

    The issue is the rule of law:  the unapologetic, wholesale trashing of laws by the president who is sworn to uphold them.

    The issue is Bush and what he has done, not Kerry and what he has said.

    Kerry... (none / 0) (#8)
    by desertswine on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 05:17:16 PM EST
    Kerry, Schmerry. This is nothing.

    It just shows how desperate the WH is. They're attacking the same guy they already beat two years ago. Whattsa'matta, got nowhere else to go?

    Bush Supports Assault & Malpractice (none / 0) (#10)
    by Daniel DiRito on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 06:40:52 PM EST
    See a tongue-in-cheek posting that employs the same GOP tactic used in relation to Senator Kerry to creatively interpret remarks made by the President in the most unfavorable manner...here:

    www.thoughttheater.com

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (none / 0) (#11)
    by Dark Avenger on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 06:49:51 PM EST
    The point is that Foley became a poster child for the Demos to use. You used him, even though the past problems of two Demo congressman are well known.

    One would think that you'd have noticed that Studds was censured by his collegues, which odium Foley escaped by resigning, and while Franks was guilty of a gross lapse in judgement, your beef should be with the people who vote him back in office, unless you think they do so under some sort of mind-control ray.

    Of course, you're still wrong.

    What kept the Foley scandal in the papers was the conflicting accounts given by various Republicans who knew of Foleys' 'tendencies" but forgot the 1st rule of a**-covering,

    Everyone get their stories straight before facing the public.

    or

    Keep
    It
    Simple
    Stupid

    The fact that the only Demo on the Page Board wasn't told anything about Foleys' behaviors doesn't help matters much on a PR level as well.

    It displayed a level of incompetence that usually gets people fired from their jobs.  It remains to be seen how many of their employers they've angered or discouraged by this, and reminds me of Menckens' reaction to democracy:

    I confess, for my part, that it greatly delights me. I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. Does it exalt dunderheads, cowards, trimmers, frauds, cads? Then the pain of seeing them go up is balanced and obliterated by the joy of seeing them come down. Is it inordinately wasteful, extravagant, dishonest? Then so is every other form of government: all alike are enemies to laborious and virtuous men.

    I'm waiting with bated breath for PPJ to find a way to blame the two facts I've mentioned on the evil, I tell you evil America-hating, flag-burning far-leftists who have taken over the party of FDR and Harry Truman.

    Classic (none / 0) (#13)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 10:07:06 PM EST
    A bunch of draft dodgers who are currently sending other people's kids to die are once again gonna criticize someone who actually went to Vietnam. And Big Media will let them get away with it, again. Only in America!

    Don't you just hate that (none / 0) (#14)
    by Che's Lounge on Wed Nov 01, 2006 at 01:01:29 AM EST
    Kerry told the truth and the country goes nuts.

    hit a nerve (none / 0) (#15)
    by BigRiver on Wed Nov 01, 2006 at 07:58:46 AM EST


    Dont need no edjication (none / 0) (#16)
    by jondee on Wed Nov 01, 2006 at 05:28:39 PM EST
    Another important point is that if you dont get   educated, you might end up spending your golden   years parroting the savants of FNC and talk radio and nursing a forty year grudge against anyone    who that spoke out against an immoral and        unwinnable war.

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